Washington State University
Institute for Shock Physics
Theory and Computations
Computational/theoretical research complements the experimental effort at the Institute for Shock Physics.
Research activities that take advantage of ISP’s computational facility include:
- Continuum and mesoscale simulations
- First-principles calculations
- Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations (Sandia National Laboratories collaboration)
- Mesoscale simulations of sand penetration
- Chemical reactions in energetic materials
- First-principles based materials discovery and design
- Simulations of interfacial dynamics
High Performance Computers Include:
IBM Cluster – e1350
- 64 compute nodes, with 2 dual core Xeon Processors
on each node (3.0 GHz, 4 MB, L2 Cache) - 80 x 12-core AMD 6174 Processors with 40 gbps Infiniband®
- 8 TB GPFS Shared Data Drive
- Infiniband® non-blocking 20 gbps switch
- Separate data storage and management nodes
Photo Credits
NIF Target Capsule (LLNL Photo NIF-1209-18046)